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Cantor keyboard

Diego Palacios' Cantor is a 42-key diodeless split keyboard.

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Published February 28, 2022
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The Cantor keyboard is a 42 key diodeless split keyboard, designed with simplicity in mind.

Inspired by the popular Corne, Ferris and Sweep keyboards, Diego aimed for a Corne-ish layout with more aggressive staggering and design which is simple, cheap and easy to assemble.

As a couriosity, this is my first split keyboard I have ever owned, and I am pretty happy with the result – diepala.

The stagger has been carefully designed from the ground up, the author even made and app to study the natural position and movements of his fingers.

The keyboard uses Choc switches with Choc spacing, thus, only MBK keycaps (or equivalent) can be used.

Because of the diodeless approach a Pro Micro was out of the questions due to the lack of the requisite number of GPIO pins. Thus, the Cantor uses STM32F401CC blackpill microcontrollers.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/diepala/cantor

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Published on Mon 28th Feb 2022. Featured in KBD #67 (source).


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